Smithsonian National Zoological Park

...600, much to the consternation of the US Secret Service tasked with security at the event at the Marriott Hotel ballroom opposite the National Zoo. Pity the social secretaries of the two sides. They are being deluged with phone calls from the...

In this article: White House, Washington, Manmohan Singh, Talk show, Cristeta Comerford, Marcus Samuelsson, Marriott Hotel, and State Department

...well. One technique is to take a natural action and put a command to it. Laurie Thompson, biologist of primates and pandas at the National Zoo, says that this method is used to train the pandas in many behaviors, such as opening their mouths...

In this article: China, Giant Panda, San Diego Zoo, Taiwan, Vienna, Austria, and The Miami Herald

...the court's first female justice in 1981. "If there was a state dinner, an exclusive theater opening, even a new panda at the National Zoo, O'Connor was there," author and reporter Joan Biskupic said in her biography of O'Connor. But...

In this article: Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas, Sandra Day O'Connor, YouTube, Thurgood Marshall, C-SPAN, Arturo O'Farrill, and Annie Liebowitz

...ask: Are you smarter than a deer? - In Washington, D.C., on Sunday, a white tail doe from the woods in Rock Creek Park wandered into the National Zoo. Startled by all the people she encountered, she immediately sought to escape by jumping a...

In this article: Elk, La Crosse Tribune, Viroqua, Wis, National Zoo, Rock Creek Park, and Washington, D.C

...journalism are the meat and potatoes of my daily Post readings, Michael E. Ruane's playful voyeurism into the life of Happy, the former National Zoo hippopotamus recently transplanted to Milwaukee, was a welcome break ["Happy embraces a...

In this article: Potato, National Zoo, Washington, Milwaukee, and Afghanistan

Follow Us! Today: Chat with John about the National Zoo's lion/deer smackdown, Merrifield's old Nipper statue and anything else that's on your mind. John Kelly: A little while ago I looked out the window and said, "At least it's not...

In this article: Lion, Washington, National Zoo, Dog, Goldfish, and Naked mole rat

I'm guessing that the people at the National Zoo who decided not to allow the public to watch two lions do with a misguided deer what lions do with weaker wildlife either were worried about a lawsuit of some sort or forgot that kids watch...

In this article: Lion, National Zoo, and Animal Planet

The National Zoo's oldest male sloth bear, Merlin, died Wednesday after surgery to repair a partially twisted spleen. It was the zoo's third animal death in a month. Zoo officials said Merlin had a history of gastric volvulus, or a...

In this article: Sloth Bear, National Zoo, Surgery, Scimitar-horned oryx, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Cardiac arrest, Volvulus, and Front Royal, Va.

The National Zoo announced Friday that two of its Scimitar-horned oryx, which are extinct in the wild, died this month. On Oct. 24, a 17-year-old female died at the zoo's main campus. Two days earlier, the animal had been anesthetized for...

In this article: National Zoo, Scimitar-horned oryx, Cardiac arrest, Myopathy, Front Royal, Va., Chad, Senegal, and Egypt

The National Zoo in Washington, like many other zoos around the country, is helping its animal residents celebrate Halloween with treats (healthy ones, like pumpkins -- no bite-size Snickers bars here) and special Halloween-themed enrichment...

In this article: Pumpkin, Orangutan, National Zoo, Halloween, Snickers, Los Angeles Times, Zoo, Washington, Los Angeles, and California